Document Outline

• Trademarks
• Major features
• Contents
  • Names of parts
    • Camera
    • Viewfinder indications
    • Control panel indications
    • Monitor indications — Shooting information
    • Monitor indications — Playback information
      • Still picture playback information
      • Movie playback information
  • How to use this manual
  • Chapter 1 Getting started
    • Attaching the strap
    • Loading the batteries
      • Battery check
    • Card basics
      • Inserting/ejecting the card
    • Power on/off
      • Card check
    • Date/time setting
    • Adjusting the diopter
    • Holding the camera
  • Chapter 2 Quick-start guide
    • Taking still pictures
    • Recording movies
    • Viewing still pictures — Using Quick View
    • Playing back movies — Using Quick View
    • Erasing pictures
  • Chapter 3 Using the menus
    • What Are the Menus?
    • Menu Basics
    • Top Menu
    • MODE MENU
    • Using Tabs
    • Selecting, Setting and Saving Functions
    • Example of How to Set a Function
    • MODE MENU Functions (Shooting)
    • MODE MENU Functions (Playback)
    • Shortcut Menu
    • Mode Dial & Shortcut Menus
    • Default Settings for Menu Functions
  • Chapter 4 Shooting basics
    • Shooting mode setting — Mode dial
      • Scene mode selection — Scene program shooting
      • Aperture setting — Aperture priority shooting
      • Shutter speed setting — Shutter priority shooting
      • Using My (Image) Mode
      • Aperture & Shutter speed setting — Manual shooting
    • How to use the shutter button
    • Focusing
      • Auto focus
      • When Auto focus does not work — Subjects that are difficult to focus on
      • Focus lock — Focusing on subjects that are not in the center of the frame
      • AF MODE — Changing the focus range
      • FULLTIME AF — Continuous focusing for sports, action and fast moving subjects
      • Manual focus
    • Taking still pictures
      • Taking still pictures while using the viewfinder
      • Taking still pictures while using the monitor
    • Recording movies
    • Zoom — Telephoto/Wide-angle shooting
      • Digital zoom
    • Flash shooting
      • Auto-flash
      • Red-eye reduction flash
      • Fill-in flash
      • Flash off
      • Slow Synchronization
      • Using the Slow Synchronization flash
      • Using the flash
      • Flash intensity control
  • Chapter 5 Advanced shooting
    • Sequential shooting
      • Sequential shooting & AF Sequential shooting
      • Auto bracketing — Shooting pictures sequentially with a different exposure for each frame
    • Metering modes — Metering the subject brightness
      • AE lock — Locking the exposure
    • Macro mode shooting — Taking close-up pictures
    • FUNCTION — Taking black & white or sepia-toned pictures
    • Panorama shooting
  • Chapter 6 Adjusting image quality and exposure
    • Record Mode
      • Selecting Record Modes
    • ISO Sensitivity
    • Exposure Compensation
    • White Balance
      • AUTO (auto white balance)
      • PRESET (preset white balance)
      • (One-Touch white balance)
      • White Balance Adjustment
    • Sharpness
    • Contrast
    • Noise Reduction
  • Chapter 7 Playback
    • Playing Back Still Pictures
      • Single-Frame Playback
      • Quick View
    • Slide-Show
    • Playing Back Movies — MOVIE PLAY
    • Displaying Shooting Information
    • Close-up Playback
    • Index Display
      • Selecting the Number of Pictures
    • Picture Rotation
    • Protect
    • Erasing Pictures
      • Single-Frame Erase
      • All-Frame Erase
    • Formatting SmartMedia removable memory cards
  • Chapter 8 Useful Functions
    • Custom Button
      • Setting the Custom Button
      • Using the Custom Button
    • Shortcut
      • Setting the Shortcut Menu
      • Using the Shortcut Menu
    • Self-Timer Shooting
    • All Reset
    • Beep
    • Rec View
    • MY MODE SETUP
    • File Name
    • Measurement Units: m/ft (meters/feet)
  • Chapter 9 Print setting
    • How to print pictures
    • All-frame Print Reserve
    • Single-frame print reserve
    • Trimming setting
    • Resetting Print Reserve
  • Chapter 10 Transferring pictures to a computer
    • Connecting directly to a computer by cable
      • Checking your system
      • How to connect
    • Transferring images to a computer — Downloading
      • Removing the USB cable
    • Saving directly from a SmartMedia removable memory card
  • Chapter 11 Using optional accessories
    • AC adapter
  • Chapter 12 Miscellaneous
    • Troubleshooting
    • User maintenance
      • After use
      • Cleaning the camera
    • Error codes
    • Specifications
    • Glossary of terms
    • Index